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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

In spite of some rumors that Blizzard is banning people running Diablo III on Linux platform, emulated through Wine, it appears that this is not the case.

The whole shenanigan was started on Blizzard's official forums by some
gamers complaining about being banned after playing Diablo III on Linux.

Blizzard has replicated the setups described by the users and tested
their own system, and Linux clients were not banned. The company has
said plainly that they are not banning the Linux players, only cheaters.
“We’ve extensively tested for false positive situations, including
replicating system setups for those who have posted claiming they were
banned unfairly.”

“We’ve not found any situations that could produce a false positive,
have found that the circumstances for which they were banned were clear
and accurate, and we are extremely confident in our findings.“

“Playing the game on Linux, although not officially supported, will not get you banned – cheating will,” a Blizzard statement said through their forums.

Calibre is one of the best eBook
management software available right now, but its strength lies in the
abundance of plugins available for it.

This week
we’ll take a look at an interesting extension called
„FanFictionDownLoader." According to the developer, this plugin brings
the functionality of FanFiction Downloader to Calibre.

FanFictionDownLoader can download FanFiction stories and books from over
50 different sites into ebook format, has support for downloading
images in the story text, and many other features.

It can be easily installed from the Preferences menu or from the official forum,
and it needs version 0.8.30 or higher of Calibre. A comprehensive
tutorial about its usage can also be found on the above forums.

Erick Perez Castellanos announced in his blog yesterday that Gnome Calendar is moving forward!
There is still a lot of work to be done, but the development of
various aspects has been re-started. The most important is the
implementation of the event-view that is missing functionality, but the
widgets part is almost done.
Below you can see some screenshots that show the month-view and the
even-view. There is still a lot to be done, like the addition of more
elements and the use of some symbolic icons etc, but you can get the
idea from these “skeletal” designs.

In this tip, we will see how to use the terminal under Ubuntu 12.04 or
Linux Mint 13 to take screenshots. There are many applications with GUI
available for Debian-based systems for taking screenshots, and the list
keeps growing. However, in this tutorial we will try to use the CLI mode
for taking screenshots.Method 1

Open the terminal under Ubuntu and take a screenshot with this command:

gnome-screenshot

To take a screenshot after xx seconds, you can use this command:

gnome-screenshot -d 3

or

sleep 3; gnome-screenshot

For Linux Mint, you can use this command:

mate-screenshot

To delay it, use this command:

mate-screenshot -d 3

or

sleep 3; mate-screenshot

Method 2

You can also use imagemagick to take screenshots under Ubuntu/Linux Mint. You can install it with this command:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Then take a screenshot with this command:

import screenshot.png

Method 3

Scrot can also be used to take screenshots. Install it with this command:

sudo apt-get install scrot

Use now this command:

scrot screenshot.png

Method 4

This command also allows to take screenshots under Ubuntu or Linux Mint:

The "cat" command is one of the most popular linux commands. It is used
to display a file in the terminal. However, one problem is that when
using "cat" to read a big file, it will display the whole file in the
terminal so you will have to scroll up a huge wall of text to read the
file. The "less" command is somewhat similar to "cat", it is also used
to read a file but "less" displays only a part of the file instead of
the whole file. To read files with "less", you just need to scroll up
and down. The real advantage of "less" is that because it doesnt read
the entire file so with very huge files, "less" will start faster than
"cat" or any text editor like vi.

The usage of "less" is simple like this:

less filename

"less" displays the beginning part of the file only, to scroll up and
down, you can use the keys "j" and "k" or the arrow keys, you can use
the "enter" key to scroll down as well.

Here are some tips you can use with "less":

- Display line numbers

To display line numbers before each line, the command is:

less -N filename

- Open multiple files

You can open multiple files with "less", the command is:

less filename1 filename2 filename3

With this command, only the first file will be displayed in the
terminal. To move to the next file, you just need to type this command
in the terminal:

:n

To move back to the previous file, the command will be:

:p

You can also replace "n" with "p" in the above commands with a certain number N and the N-th file will be displayed.

To remove the current file, the command will be:

:d

- Bookmark scrolling

When opening a huge file, there will be some certain lines you need to
check again. Instead of remember the line numbers, you can bookmark the
line with this command:

m &

Just replace "&" with any letter you want and keep scrolling down to
read the file. When you want to go back to the bookmarked line, the
command will be:

Unity News Lens lets you search
Google news from Dash and it currently supports 61 countries. The lens
was updated recently, and it now includes local news, topics and top
stories with up to 100 results.

The updated News
Lens uses geolocation for local news to define the language used based
on your country, but you can also use your session language by selecting
Language > Current from the Unity News Lens filter.

The lens will fallback to
English and world news for countries not supported by Google News, but
the news will be as local as possible, according to the Unity News Lens
changelog.

To install Unity News Lens in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10, use the following commands:

In this tutorial, we will explain the installation of Grub Customizer 2.5.7 under
Ubuntu 12.04 or older, Linux Mint 13, Fedora 17, and openSUSE 12.1.
Installation from source is also explained below. As a reminder, Grub
Customizer is an application with GUI that allows to configure the
settings of the GRUB2 boot loader. You can find here more information about Grub Customizer.

Grub Customizer (2.5.7) Installation

For Ubuntu 12.04/Linux Mint 13, you can easily install Grub Customizer with the following commands:

Jay Flood has announced the release of Porteus 1.2, a Slackware-based minimalist live CD set with a choice of KDE 3 (Trinity), KDE 4, Xfce and LXDE desktops: "The
Porteus community is proud to announce the release of Porteus version
1.2. Major changes from Porteus 1.1 include: Linux kernel bumped to
version 3.4.4; KDE upgraded to 4.8.4; Trinity upgraded to 3.5.13.1
(R14); LXDE upgraded to the latest stable components; Xfce (4.10)
editions have been added for both architectures as standalone ISO
images; Firefox upgraded to version 13.0.1; replaced wicd with
NetworkManager; new and improved applications to handle system
configuration; optimized boot time - with current implementation of rc
scripts Porteus is one of the fastest booting live linux distros out
there...." Read the rest of the release announcement which includes links to full changelogs. Download: Porteus-v1.2-i486.iso (251MB, MD5), Porteus-v1.2-x86_64.iso (262MB, MD5), Porteus-XFCE-v1.2-i486.iso (206MB, MD5), Porteus-XFCE-v1.2-x86_64.iso (202MB, MD5).

The following designs are extremely tentative art and things are
probably going to change. But it is always nice to have a look to the
uncertain future ;)
First off a quick look in some minor changes for Nautilus 360.
Compact view is gone, extra panel is gone and tree view will be replaced
by a list view. But all these are just details of what is coming next.
Nautilus is gonna merged to Content Selection pattern, and if you don’t
know what content selection is, you better check this before you continue reading.. or at least check it after, decision is totally up to you ;)
McCann uploaded the latest Nautilus designs for 3.8 most likely, but
unfortunately in a very bad quality. Anyway here there are..

Enjoy :)

All our files

Our home folder

A second drive if we have

Our pictures folder

Select content view. If you read the link above you should be familiar with it

Our file preferences, which is currently empty. It needs more design I guess..

..and design just came. Damn Gnome development goes fast ;)

Set our file permissitions

And some advanced options like show hidden files, enable direct delete etc. This is really nice!

Set grid view preferences that we can modify the size of icons and the sort order

And the list view options, we can select what information will be visible and sort the files display order

This is how we will interact with our files in the future. The five
buttons on bottom make totally clear that you gonna use your finger on
them ;)
I will re-review on this when I get newer and better quality images.

Blender is a free suite of 3d content creation applications openly
available on most operating systems including Ubuntu. You can download
Blender through the software manager or by clicking this link, if all else fails you can just type the following in your terminal.

Radiance Dark Panel is a theme derived from the default Ubuntu
Radiance theme. What has been changed from the original is that users
will get a dark upper panel instead of the bright one. Here is a
screenshot of Radiance Dark Panel under Ubuntu 12.04:

The theme can be installed manually from this link, or you can use our custom PPA below. The PPA currently supports Ubuntu 12.04/11.10.

Radiance Dark Panel Installation

To install Radiance Dark Panel under Ubuntu 12.04/11.10, open the terminal and run the following commands:

There are all kinds of Linux hosting servers. The most complicated of
these require you to be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE). Many of
them require you to do more than download a distro, burn a CD, and
install and boot up your new bare-bones servers. But, say you have a
particular job for a server and the boss wants it done yesterday, what
do you then? Well, one excellent choice is TurnKey Linux.

With TurnKey Linux the only hardware you need is any device that can
support a Web browser and a credit card. That's because, while you can
run TurnKey Linux on an ordinary dedicated server or on VMWare,
OpenStack, or OpenVZ, the mindlessly simple and fast way to do it is to
spin up your own server on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Here's how it works.

TurnKey Linux, until recently, was built on Ubuntu Linux 10.04. Now, the
core TurnKey Linux is in the process of being migrated to old, but rock
solid Debian Squeeze (6.0.4) Linux distribution. But, you as someone
who just needs a server Right Now don't need to worry about what's
happening in the background. No, all you have to do is pick the
appropriate TurnKey Linux server.

Here are two interesting gaming news for
Linux users, as Valve director confirmed Steam for Linux, and Blizzard
started banning Diablo III users who use Linux.

In
the short video posted above, Valve's managing director, Gabe Newell, is
interviewed by the Norwegian site DagBladet.no at E3 2012, talking
briefly about their upcoming plans with Steam and support for the Linux
platform.

Thanks to Michael Larabel from phoronix.com we already knew that Steam will be available for Linux users by the year's end.

In other news, it appears that lots of Linux users, who installed the
Diablo III game via Wine or PlayOnLinux apps, are getting banned from
the Battle.net system.

Contacted by lots of angry Diablo III
owners, Blizzard response was negative: we will not un-ban accounts and
we won't issue a refund to users.

Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced that the first public beta release of Calculate Linux 12, a Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers, is available for testing: "We're
happy to announce that Calculate Linux 12 has entered its final phase -
a beta-testing version is now available. Main features: network
client-server solutions via SOAP/WSDL are supported; both console and
graphical interfaces are implemented; multiple installations are
supported - you can install CL on several storage media at once, locally
as well as remotely; system settings can now be configured either from
the command line or in a graphical environment; the Xfce edition has a
better appearance with the new Adwaita theme." See the release announcement
for further details and screenshots. Quick links to download the
desktop editions with KDE (CLD) or GNOME (CLDG); for other flavours
please see the mirror list: cld-20120702-i686.iso (2,164MB, MD5), cld-20120702-x86_64.iso (2,332MB, MD5), cldg-20120702-i686.iso (1,740MB, MD5), cldg-20120702-x86_64.iso (1,904MB, MD5).